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Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016:

Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."

By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016

Mark Herring
stated on March 10, 2016 in a letter:

"Every (U.S. Supreme Court) nominee since 1875 has received a nomination hearing."

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • March 20, 2016

New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on February 16, 2016 in a press release:

Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."

By Clay Wirestone • February 19, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 14, 2016 in on ABC's "This Week":

Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge."

By Lauren Carroll • February 16, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 13, 2016 in a debate in Greenville, S.C.:

"It has been over 80 years since a lame-duck president appointed a Supreme Court justice."

By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2015 in a campaign proposal:

Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."

By Tom Kertscher • September 17, 2015

David Ralston
stated on July 13, 2015 in an interview:

There is debate among constitutional scholars about whether the First Amendment will continue to protect faith leaders from being forced to perform marriages against their religious beliefs.

By Nancy Badertscher • August 12, 2015

Rafael Cruz
stated on July 31, 2015 in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:

"Prior to 1962, everybody prayed before school started," and "the Bible was the principal textbook in all schools."

By Anna Bruzgulis • August 10, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on June 28, 2015 in an interview with NPR News:

Says states not directly involved in the gay marriage lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court "are not bound" by the court’s ruling.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on June 29, 2015 in an interview on NPR:

The Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on May 24, 2015 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":

The Supreme Court "can’t overrule the other two" branches of government.

By Lauren Carroll • May 29, 2015

Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on March 30, 2015 in a radio ad:

An April 7, 2015 referendum would take "the choice of chief justice" of the Wisconsin Supreme Court "away from the people."

By Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2015

Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2015 in an interview with CNN:

One Texas city "has a law that says that women can only have six dildos."

By Amy Sherman, Steve Contorno • February 9, 2015

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 22, 2014 in an interview with a Las Vegas news network:

"There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange."

By Molly O'Connor • July 24, 2014

Dean Cannon
stated on November 16, 2010 in a speech:

The Florida Supreme Court has "no express authority in the Florida Constitution" to remove questions from the ballot proposed by the Legislature.

By Amy Sherman • November 18, 2010

Jeff Sessions
stated on May 16, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

Elena Kagan "violated the law of the United States at various points" with her opposition to military recruiters.

By Robert Farley • May 16, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 in the State of the Union address:

"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections."

By Louis Jacobson • January 28, 2010

Charles Schumer
stated on January 21, 2010 in a press conference:

"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2010

Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 26, 2009 in his radio program:

Sotomayor "ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded."

By Robert Farley • May 28, 2009

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